Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope . |
| 2 | I tried to do the same , and in between sailing my own boat and the occasional cutter duty managed to concentrate enough on my proper job to pass a promotion examination in 1956 . |
| 3 | Having succeeded in making your formulae work for Lotus 1-2-3 and for As-Easy-As I tried to do the same in Excel . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 5 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 6 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 7 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 8 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 9 | Hardly aware of what she was doing , she tried to do the same , thankful that her shoes had soft soles . |
| 10 | She began to follow the same path that they had taken before . |
| 11 | You chose to play the same game . |
| 12 | She was afraid to look round again , but the other housemaid was ready to carry soup bowls to the table and she had to do the same . |
| 13 | In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ . |
| 14 | Against that , though , was the fact that , if he and his secretary were still away , she stood to have the same unsatisfactory conversation with the lady with a little English as before . |
| 15 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 16 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 17 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 18 | After er , purchasing we continued to produce the same materials erm , mainly er , directed towards the saddlery trade . |
| 19 | ‘ David gives us that little bit extra , though we wanted to play the same tight 4–4-2 formation . |
| 20 | We tended to have the same meal on the same day of the week : roast on Sunday , cold meat on Monday , a steak-and-kidney pie or pudding on Tuesday , stew on Wednesday , salt beef on Thursday , fish on Friday and toad-in-the-hole on Saturday . |
| 21 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 22 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 23 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 24 | Whatever divided them , they had to share the same planet ; and this dictated a ‘ constructive dialogue , a search for solutions to key international problems , for areas of agreement ’ . |
| 25 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 26 | The British were mistaken in supposing that they continued to have the same sovereign and therefore the same national identity vis-à-vis the outside world as the Canadians . |
| 27 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 28 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |
| 29 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 30 | Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet . |